English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 17

“Oh! that's easy to guess,” said the Baron; “some yokel or other.

Who acts: that, Baron · What happens: be, guess, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Baron), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 easy	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 easy	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	cop
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 guess	mark
8	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easy	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Baron	det
13	Baron	Baron	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 yokel	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 yokel	punct
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 yokel	det
17	yokel	yokel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 other	cc
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 yokel	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that	easy property	tree rules
2	guess in a quote	to-infinitive	that not said here		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	past	the Baron		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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